TELEGRAM TO ARTHUR HENDERSON[1]

Written:Written on January 24 (February 6), 1918Published:First published in Russian in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50.

      Published on February 14, 1918, in English in the newspaperThe CallNo. 97.

      Sent to London.

      Printed from the newspaper text.

      Written in English.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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TheRussian Socialist Government regrets inability to
participate in the Allied Socialist Conference as being
contrary to the principles of Internationalism. We object
to division of the working class according to Imperialist
grouping. If British Labour agrees to Russian peace aims,
which are already accepted by the Socialist parties of the
Central Powers, such division is still more unwarranted.

[1]Thisdocument is the reply to a telegram from Arthur Henderson,
who, on behalf of the British Labour Party, proposed to Leninthat delegates should be sent from the Bolshevik Party to a
conference in London of socialists of the Entente countries to be
convened on February 20, 1918, with the aim of achieving a
common agreement on the problems of the war.